Roland Coltrane
Superstar
he's definitely regressed on this album
I know this is his pro-black, "conscious" album but I find a lot of it to be really shallow. there's no real insight like say a dead prez or immortal technique. everything is surface level. and I'm not trying to say that he has to be really profound or anything, but positive messaging doesn't garner somebody a free pass no matter how much some people may want it to.
I used to like this dude a lot and would ride for him, but over the years you can kinda see what direction he was heading and I realize myself and a lot of others liked him because we felt "his heart was in the right place." if we gonna keep it a buck he's like maybe the third or fourth best rapper in Pro Era, listen to their Peep the Aprocalypse mixtape and tell me I'm wrong.
all in all, he and the crew as a whole have kinda gotten away from what made heads like myself like them in the first place, they've definitely kinda entered a phase where they're attempting to do what everybody else is doing, and at the end of the day it takes away what makes them stand out and by default you gotta lump them in with everybody else.
Joey just ain't rapping like he used to, or maybe I've just given him a pass for years because I liked the shyt he was on. come to think of it I can't really think of any quotables from him and my favorite song by him"Survival Tactics" I really like more because of Capital Steez
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